Hala Darayad ENG 212 Response paper #3 27 August 2016 “This is What it Mean to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” The short story of‚ “This is What it Mean to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie is about a young man named Victor dealing with the tribulations of his father passing away and traveling to his father’s town to retrieve his old things‚ which includes his father’s pickup truck.‚ Victors old friend Thomas‚ whom he fought with in the past travels along with him. Victor had a rough relationship with
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SUMMARY Karen Smith in her article “Has Africa got anything to say” wanted to basically address the rising criticism of how the developing world and in particular Africa has been neglected in International Relations theory. She attempts to go beyond the criticism by addressing concerns of how the developing world can make contributions which are potentially vital in enriching people’s understanding of IR. She highlights how the existent Western knowledge is seen in many parts of the globe in a superior
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What Does Your Handwriting Say About You Good morning to all my fellow friends. Today‚ I’m going to talk about what your handwriting says about you. How you craft letters and words can indicate more than 5000 different personality traits. To introduce students to the field‚ graphologists have them write ‘she sells seashells by the seashore’ in cursive. Why cursive? Graphologists say it gives them a better read on a person. Try writing a same sentence now in cursive and see how graphologists might
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They decide to take few bites and throw away the rest at the pigs. I think the reason why Augustin talks about the pear tree is because he is trying to find out why we do what we do? What is actually behind our motives? For example‚ what was Augustine drive to act upon something he knew that it was wrong. He explains “ It was not the takings that attracted me but the raid itself‚ and yet to do it by myself would have been no fun and I should not have done it” (Melchert 227). Augustin is talking about
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Sherman alexie wrote the story What It Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona which was about two natives on a road trip to retrieve one of their fathers ashes and bonded during the trip. Louse Erdrich also wrote a story about two natives who took a road trip to bond named The Red Convertible. In both stories two natives lived on a preservation as kids. A key difference in stories was that Victor who was the main character from This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona was broke along with most individuals
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The Way We Say What We Say In his book The Stuff of Thought (2007)‚ Steven Pinker states that all humans‚ universally‚ must be careful in the choice of their words in order to convey a specific message while keeping up a particular relationship between the speaker and the listener. In the simplest form‚ people do this for basic politeness. Whether it is asking for someone to pass the salt or asking somebody to donate to a specific cause‚ people phrase their desires in a way to not offend the listener
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is real life. Reading the lyrics in Kayne West’s song "Heard em say" was very literal‚ as well as the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes. Both of these have a lot of similarities. In the beginning of the poem it starts out with a question saying "What happens to a dream deferred?" meaning if you postpone or hold off on your dreams they will never come true. Just like Kayne west is singing in the first lyric of the song "And i heard ’em say‚ nothing’s ever promised tomorrow today" This is my favorite line
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Students‚ Teachers need to be Transculturally Literate‚ Experts says … Making new friends and learning new things are great. How about having an opportunity experiencing unusual yet unforgettable experiences‚ sounds even more interesting right? But how do are we going to start to achieve all of this? For me‚ it’s going to start by “Communication”. We meet new people by communicating with them; and we can also learn new information’s and experiences through it. According to Keyton (2011) communication
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Do you worry about what people say? Around the world‚ a lot of people worry about what others say or think of them‚ but‚ what’s the reason whereby people think a lot about what others say? So‚ according to different references‚ people want to be liked and accepted‚ and in that roll‚ it’s very important what people say about them. But‚ what’s the impact of be worry about what people say? … We’ll see that. Caring about what people say of you it’s normal because it means that you respect the different
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not deemed evil ourselves‚ we are to frown upon those who have crossed over from faintly sinful to purely evil with a pure and perfect hate. Augustine writes on a debatable topic when he writes‚ “Pride is the beginning of sin‚” (City of God‚ 38). I would say this is arguable because little bits of pride in one’s life are not bad. If one does not take pride in their work‚ then they shouldn’t be doing that work at all. On the contrary‚ if one is overly prideful‚ then issues start to arise which leads
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